A standard, thoroughly shuffled 52-card deck is dealt one at a time to 5 players (players 1 - 5) in standard fashion, until the deck is exhausted.

Using non-brute force methods, show which player is most likely to be dealt the last Diamond in the deck.

Player 2 is most likely to be dealt the last Diamond in the deck.

 

Posted by K Sengupta on 2009-01-09 03:54:50